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Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry. By Mike Gruntman. Reston, Va.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004. everything pp. xiv, 503. $59.95 ISBN: 1-56347-705-X

Although not a historian, Mike Gruntman--a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California--manages to get the history right. Gruntman got it right because he conducted his research more thoroughly than did Van Riper, especially with respect to consulting official histories. The latter are based largely on primary documentary sources and oral history interviews with participants. …

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